This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemporary approaches on vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and resilience, which aim to assist its targeted audience (academics, policymakers, and practitioners) to understand and make informed decisions in a wide variety of real-world resilience situations.

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemporary approaches on vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and resilience, which aim to assist its targeted audience (academics, policymakers, and practitioners) to understand and make informed decisions in a wide variety of real-world resilience situations.

Subsidy in agriculture is an important issue and is an instrument of fiscal policy of the government. The developed countries are providing huge amount of subsidy to agriculture whereas the developing countries are restricted in many ways particularly under WTO regulation. In 2001 the government of Bangladesh again decided to provide subsidy on agriculture including sugarcane after the withdrawal of subsidy in1992. Sugar industry is the most important agro-based industry in Bangladesh. This industry is passing its crisis period due to huge amount of losses every year. Poor sugarcane farmers are not able to apply proper doses of input due to higher input price which results in low sugarcane yield. Policy makers are interested to know whether subsidy has made any positive impact on sugar industry or not. And how this programme can be made more effective? This book tried to answer /examine this question using empirical data from 15 sugar mills and came up with some important findings about the impact of subsidy in this sector. This book will be very useful for planners, policy makers and researchers as well.

Economic growth depends on the combined effect of agriculture and non- agriculture sectors. The use of modern technology in agriculture has been triggering the linkages between agriculture and non-agriculture sectors. In recent years, the use of Power Tiller (PT) for land preparation has risen significantly to meet the drought power shortages at farm level in Bangladesh. In rural areas many farmers do not have the ability to buy PT but they buy and operate PT through mobilization of capital from bank and other sources. They generally operate and sell PT services for cropland preparation on commercial interests. The present study has, therefore, been designed to add new insights into using PT at the farm level and explore the backward and forward linkages of the technology. The study is expected to help planners and extension workers to understand the importance of PT to boost up the growth of agriculture and non-agriculture sectors and thus to create income and employment opportunities. It will also contribute to minimize the controversies regarding PT use at farm level.